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I find this to be an ironic coincidence that the hateful neocon Republicans were able to vote down the repeal of the asinine military's "Don't Ask and Don't Tell" ban on living as an openly gay service member, even tough you are actually living as a gay service member, fighting to keep America free!?!(Source) [picapp […]
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Apple recently launched an HTML5 showcase on its official website with several demos that are intended to highlight some of the advanced Web development capabilities that are made available by emerging standards. The showcase has attracted criticism from standards advocates, however, because it pops up a message telling users that they will need to download Safari in order to view the demos.
Some of the demos legitimately require Safari because they use Apple-specific Web features that are still at extremely early stages of the standardization process, but most of the demos will function properly in Chrome and Firefox. Apple's clumsy browser detection mechanism and careless attitude about the distinction between Safari features and actual standards has raised some troubling questions for the Web community.
It's worth noting from the start that the underlying idea of Apple's HTML5 showcase is not itself controversial. In fact, the Mozilla Hacks blog and Google's Chrome Experiments gallery both serve similar purposes. All three sites have some demos and content that rely to an extent on nascent technologies that are not yet supported across multiple browsers. It's also important to understand that browser-specific features are a necessary and important part of the Web's evolution—most new features that become standards are originally implemented in some experimental form by one of the major browser vendors.
The problem is that Apple's showcase lacks sufficient disclosure and clarity regarding the level of cross-browser support and industry acceptance for individual features.
Some of the language on the showcase page is misleading, and the message that it displays to non-Safari users is detrimental to the long-term goals of the HTML5 standards effort. Telling users that they need one specific browser in order to view HTML5 content downplays the availability of HTML5 support in other modern browsers and wrongly inflates the perception that HTML5 is fragmented. It's also troubling because it sets a bad example for third-party Web developers regarding best practices for browser detection.
Oddly enough, Apple has a whole separate version of the showcase on its developer website that exhibits none of these offensive characteristics. The more appropriately named "Safari Technology Demos" page has the same demos, but doesn't categorically block alternate browsers. I was able to test the demos in Chrome and found that most of them worked as expected. This alternate page is accessible by clicking the "Developers" link at the bottom of the HTML5 showcase. This alternate version of the showcase is much closer to how it should be done.
I don't think that anybody objects to Apple having a Safari Technology Demos page that shows off a mix of emerging Web standards and Safari features. But it's not appropriate to conflate browser-specific functionality and open standards in the manner that the HTML5 showcase page does.
Mozilla evangelist Chris Blizzard voiced his concern about the issue in a recent blog entry. He characterizes Apple's HTML5 showcase as a misguided marketing stunt and explains why it is detrimental to the browser ecosystem. He says that the browser block on the demos is a "F**k You" to the people who make and run other standards-compliant browsers. He also voices some criticism of Google, which he says has made similar mistakes in promoting its Native Client technology and other nonstandard features.
"Apple's messaging is clearly meant to say 'hey, we love the web' but the actual demos they have and the fact that actively block other browsers from those demos don't match their messaging. It's not intellectually honest at all," Blizzard wrote. "HTML5 is in a dangerous place since everyone wants to own it, but everyone is in a different place in terms of support or even what it means. I can't promise what other organizations will do, but I can at least say what I will do in the future. At Mozilla, intellectual honesty matters and it matters to me personally. So I don't think you'll see us do things like this in the future."
Indeed, Mozilla has a reasonably good track record when it comes to accurately conveying the standardization status of Web technologies. This is particularly evident in the Mozilla Hacks blog, where posts consistently include appropriate disclosure in cases where nonstandard or Mozilla-specific technologies are discussed.
The real power of HTML5 is that it is vendor-neutral technology that anyone can implement and support with their own authoring tools. Apple should change its HTML5 showcase page to reflect the true spirit of the standard: interoperability and cross-browser support.

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On Thursday night, paper artist Ibe Kyoko and curator Hollis Goodall will discuss the current exhibition Washi Tales: The Paper Art of Ibe Kyoko, followed by a special, not-to-be-missed performance based on Ibe's work, featuring actors and an ensemble of musicians playing traditional Japanese instruments. Below, Goodall provides insight into Ibe's work. More information on Thursday's event can be found here.
A piece of the world was wiped away on March 11 of this year. In the northeastern area of Honshu, the main island of Japan, what is left to us after earthquake and tsunami is bits of lives that were.
For the last ten years, the washi (Japanese paper) artist Ibe Kyoko has incorporated bits of former lives in the form of torn pieces of letters and documents into her works of art. Following the earthquake and tsunami, Ibe-san's thoughts turned to her family members and ancestors who lived in Fukushima, and to her aging mother who had come from that region. Reaching into her family's home altar (butsudan), Ibe-san pulled out family documents dating back over 100 years. From her personal files came letters brushed on beautiful paper from her parents and close relatives, and letters in English from friends. These became the material and stimulus for her present series, called Once Upon a Time, of which several works are on display in the Pavilion for Japanese Art. Ibe-san made the first work of the series for her mother's home. At LACMA, the largest of the pieces from the series in the gallery has the characters for "mother" and "father" displayed prominently amid the parts of documents and letters now bound into the surface of the new paper art work.
It was a decade ago that Ibe-san went to a used book store and brought home a handwritten census from a town no longer to be found on a map. She became inspired to bring the recorded fragments of information about these forgotten souls into her works of art. How that town disappeared is a mystery, perhaps caused more by economics than natural disaster. That so many people and their town had virtually evaporated from history but for this document that she chanced upon struck her deeply. Their lives began to re-appear a small piece at a time in the surfaces of her artworks. The series called Hogosho (writings on scratch paper) recalls her early concepts about working with recycled texts.
Sitting in a screen mounter's studio one day, she noticed that scratch paper reused by the mounter to provide backing for the painting on a screen would begin to peek out from tears in the painted surface or backing paper as the screen aged. She became fascinated with the screen mounting itself as being a time capsule. Old records, inventories, cash receipts, or memos socked into the interior of a screen for support, as old Japanese paper is still strong and useful, represented life at the moment that the screen was being mounted. Japanese paper, most commonly sourced from the inner bark of the paper mulberry (kozo), though in Ibe-san's case taken from antique paper originally made from the bark of the ganpi bush (a plant of the Daphne family), is both durable because of its long fibers and valuable as the plants from which they come grow relatively slowly. As such, paper has always been valued and reused. Though she refers to her works as "recycled" paper, the lives denoted upon them are in a way resurrected.
The power of nature is so often beyond what people can control. Harnessing that power is part of Ibe-san's expression. Having laid bits of documents, chips of mica, flakes of gold or silver, recycled indigo paper, and other precious materials onto the paper screen, she then begins to apply paper pulp behind that surface. As she adds layers and layers of various colored pulps of recycled paper behind those, some dense with calligraphy so they take on the color of gray sumi, others pink from the vermillion of seals used to sign a document, colors merge onto the surface and fibers bind with the elements already applied. Layer upon layer of pulp is added with great quantities of water, and Ibe-san relinquishes control, allowing the water to rearrange paper fibers and draw pulp into various patterns. The power of water and the strength of plants inspire this work, while the people whose writings are merged into her paper she feels to be living again through traces of their words.
Hollis Goodall, curator, Japanese Art


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I had the good fortune of traveling abroad just after the Thanksgiving Holiday to visit a place far, far away. Well not so far, only about 3,000 miles as the "Continental" crow flies.
The missus and I took a flight from Newark's Liberty International and landed in Shannon, Ireland after a 6 ½ hour flight. Although a bit "jet-lagged", my wife and I proceeded to engage in a perilous endeavor. I was driving on the wrong side of the road for the first time.
It wasn't as daunting as I had imagined and with a couple of cups of airport coffee and a scone for good measure we set off to drive down into Cork County and settle in at our hotel in a village called Midleton.
Luckily, I had caught a bit of sleep on the plane and I was negotiating the roadways of the Emerald Isle without any real difficulty. The roundabouts were at first a challenge, but no more so than driving Rt. 95 on a weekend in Jersey. With the missus as my co-pilot we made the 3 hour trip to Midleton. We only made a few minor navigational errors and managed to arrive safely.
Prior to leaving on our holiday I had contacted the Port Commisioner's office in Cork City through their website with the hopes of having a look at the tugs working in the second largest natural harbor in the world and maybe chat with my counterparts and compare notes. I received a reply from Captain Paul O'Regan inviting us to do just that. We made arrangements to stop in the Customs House in Cork City on the Monday following our arrival and have a chat and coffee. We met with Captain O'Regan and Captain Noel Fitzgerald of the VS Tug Gerry O'Sullivan.
In this day and age of Homeland Security precautions, TWIC cards and red tape, both my wife and me were invited to join the crew of the VS Tug Gerry O'Sullivan for their next tow on Wednesday. No ID cards, bloodwork or body cavity searches required.
A ship was due to arrive and discharge at the Conoco Phillips facility in Cobh Harbor (pronounced Cove) on the morning tide and we gladly accepted the invitation and kept in touch for the next day or so.
On Wednesday morning we arrived at the Cobh Heritage center and parked behind the gates. The master had yet to arrive and we were welcomed aboard and chatted with the Bos'n while we were awaiting the Captain's arrival. Captain Fitzgerald showed up and gave us the "nickel tour". A coffee, some introductions and then underway.
The crew consisted of the Master Noel Fitzgerald, Chief Engineer Panos Karousos, Bos'n Killian O'Brien and their wheelhouse trainee Gerry Moran.
With 4,000 bhp, clean modern lines and tight quarters, the Gerry O'Sullivan is a Voith-Schneider twin drive tractor tug, she is also a "day boat" . The crew spreads themselves among the work vessels that are under the control of the port. They could be assigned to any manner of work boat for their tours that might include drag operations to smooth the bottom, or maybe tend navigation buoys, to manning tugboats. Shore-side work is also in their job description. They are each a "Jack of all trades". Their tours last two weeks on and off, they are on call as opposed to living on the boat. Trainees for the wheelhouse are on their own time until they are qualified and licensed to handle the boat. Not too different from the way we did it in the past. We call it "hamming", or "ham and egging".
The tow; To say it was impressive is an understatement, I've never experienced such a nimble boat.
(a VS tug in Antwerp, Demonstration This video is of a similar tug, there are some configuration differences but the maneuvering is the same. The fun stuff starts at the 12m30sec mark ).
We flanked away from the wharf and quickly turned within a boat length, the stern no more than one or two meters from the wall. The Gerry O'Sullivan easily turned on a dime and steadied so quickly it could have been on a track.
The trip out to the sea buoy revealed that the buoy system is the opposite of the system in place here in the US .The IALA Region A System is the rule.
The G.O's sea keeping quality wasn't that much different from a conventional tug. As we approached the harbor entrance the ride was, let's say, a bit lively. The tug isn't really suited to coastal towing but then again their work is primarily ship docking. It handled the 2-3 meter swells well enough, it wasn't uncomfortable considering.
As we met and escorted the ship from Roches Point Light, another tug was tethered to her stern to provide arresting capability in case of a steering casualty. The harbor is large but there is a tight entrance channel that requires a dead-on approach.
The pilot kept her neatly on the ranges and he had little traffic to worry about, only a naval vessel that was outbound for sea that met us when we cleared the narrows.
The docking was going to be conducted during the last hour of the incoming tide and as we approached, the G.O. approached the starboard bow and put up her working line. The method for assisting the ship with a tractor involves turning "stern to" the work. That is, we approached the starboard bow with the stern of the tug. This places the forward mounted drives in the best position for maneuvering during the job.
The line used for assist work is a heavy 9″ circ. samson braid hawser pennant attached to a smaller diameter but stronger synthetic main line on the drum. The deck gang on the ship has to winch it aboard mechanically. Once secured, we ride the ship until the pilot slows for the approach.
Of note is the way the tug will work alongside. The pilot orders the G.O. to back the bow, the tug backs away quickly and while doing so a substantial amount of hawser is deployed to the length of about 200′. This allows the tug to apply force without eating its own "dirty water" or better known as "quickwater".
At first I thought the brake had failed until I realized the Bos'n was handling the controls. Deploying and retrieving the slack is handled by the Bos'n who takes up station alongside the helmsman after the line is sent up to the ship. Conventional tugs in the States don't usually release that kind of slack when docking a ship. We tend to stay snugged up. Captain Fitzgerald explained that the added slack allows the tug to exert her force without overloading the line vertically, the longer lead gives the tug clean water to work in and ensures the line won't let go from excessive downward force. Smart.
It all happens very quickly, when the pilot asks the tug to back, the drives are reversed , the throttles are increased and the brake on the drum is released so slack can be powered out at the speed of the tug's sternway.
I didn't anticipate how fast our helmsman (Gerry) would back away from the ship. With no lag time for clutches, (because there aren't any)forward to astern happens in the blink of an eye. The change of thrust overcomes its former motion quickly. The Bos'n matches the speed of the winch with the tug's motion and secures his brake as the throttles are reversed and sternway is reduced to "fetch" into the line. Once set, power is applied and the boat can swing whichever way is required to apply the necessary force to oblige the pilot's request. When the pilot calls for "ahead easy" the tug closes its distance to the ship as the line is winched in as fast as it went out. In a flash we're snugged up "stern-to" the ship and pushing her toward the berth.
It went as I expected, no fanfare, professional, boring. Just the way we like it. Our trip back to the dock was bright and sunny. We told tales and compared work. We discussed licensing and training. It seems tugboat men are the same all over, ribbing each other, tall tales and good humor. The men of the G.O. were just as curious about how we worked in the States as I was with their operation. A brilliant experience, I can't thank the crew and Captains Fitzgerald and O'Regan enough.
I know, a tugboat ride on my vacation, one of the few times I wanted to be on a boat on my time off.
I wrote this as a story about a fun day and some detail of how these men work a V.S. tug. I didn't intend nor do I wish to go into a deep analysis of how these boats work. I was aboard for one job, I can't possibly know or do justice to the skills these men possess. I had a small glimpse of their professionalism, expertise, and good humor. Enjoy the photos.


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Lenovo is the latest of the PC manufacturers to announce details about its upcoming Windows 8 machines. Like manufacturers we've seen at CES, Computex, and IFA this year, Lenovo is betting big on hybrid systems to drive its Windows 8 sales. The IdeaPad Yoga 11 and 13 both have flexible screens that allow their bases to be used as monitor stands, the IdeaTab Lynx is another Intel Atom tablet with a keyboard dock, and the ThinkPad Twist is Lenovo's take on the laptop that turns into a tablet.
IdeaPad Yoga 11 and 13
The two IdeaPad Yoga tablets are identical in concept: the display hinge allows the computers' displays to be flipped 360 degrees, converting them into tablets and serving as adjustable stands. Both come in two colors: the rather staid Silver Gray and the distinctive Clementine Orange.
On the inside, though, the tablet-esque laptops are very different. The 11.6" Yoga 11, which starts at $799, is a Windows RT device with the following specs:
- NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor
- 1366×768 five-point touchscreen
- 2GB of RAM
- "Up to" 64GB of storage
- 802.11n and Bluetooth 4.0
- 720p webcam,Two USB 2.0 ports
- HDMI port
- Card reader
The Yoga 11 is particularly interesting because it's the first non-tablet Windows RT device that we've seen so far. All of the others have included some sort of keyboard dock to enable operation as a standard laptop, but this is the only one that is more laptop than tablet despite its touchscreen. Lenovo says it should get up to 13 hours on one charge.
The Yoga 13 is a more traditional laptop, at least for a device with a screen that folds all the way back. Here's the rundown on the specs of 13.3" Windows 8 laptop:
- 1600×900 ten-point touchscreen
- Intel Core i5 and i7 processors with Intel HD 4000 integrated graphics
- Up to 8GB of RAM
- Up to 256GB of solid-state storage
- 802.11n and Bluetooth 4.0
- 720p webcam
- One USB 2.0 port and one USB 3.0 port
- HDMI port
- Card reader
Pricing starts at $1,099, which isn't too far off from other premium 13" Ultrabooks. At about seven hours, the battery life estimate for this laptop is also in line with other Ultrabooks of this size.
IdeaTab Lynx
The IdeaTab Lynx looks more like other Windows 8 and Windows RT tablets we've seen—a standalone tablet with an optional keyboard dock accessory.
Internally, the tablet has much in common with Acer's Iconia W510, but in a slightly larger 11.6" form factor. The Lynx comes with:
- A 1366×768 five-point IPS touchscreen
- Clover Trail-based Intel Atom Z2760
- 2GB of low-power DDR2
- Either 32GB or 64GB of storage
- 802.11n and Bluetooth 4.0
- 2 megapixel front-facing camera
- Micro USB 2.0 port, a Micro HDMI port, and a microSD card slot.
The tablet by itself, which starts at $599, is rated at about eight hours of battery life, but the $149 keyboard dock's extra battery boosts this to about 16 hours. The dock also adds two full-size USB 2.0 ports to the tablet. Unlike Acer's W510, the Lynx's keyboard dock appears to use the same keyboard as other Lenovo laptops, which should make it a bit more comfortable for long typing sessions.
ThinkPad Twist
Lastly, we have the ThinkPad Twist, a business-class offering that is more in line with some other convertible laptops we've seen. The screen flips down and swivels around to cover the keyboard, converting it from an Ultrabook-like laptop into a husky tablet.
The convertible has:
- A 12.5" 1366×768 touchscreen coated with Gorilla Glass
- Intel Core i3, i5, and i7 processors with Intel HD 4000 integrated graphics
- Up to 8GB of RAM
- 802.11n and Bluetooth 4.0
- 720p webcam
- Two USB 3.0 ports
- Gigabit Ethernet, a Mini DisplayPort, and a Mini HDMI port.
Cellular connectivity is available as an option.
The laptop starts at $849, but that price is in part due to the its use of old-school hard drives: a 128GB SSD is an option, but the cheaper models will use 320GB and 500GB HDDs.
Lenovo's press releases didn't mention specific availability for any of these devices, but we expect them all to make the Windows 8 launch window—the company is hosting an event this evening, and we'll be reporting back with any additional information and with our in-person impressions of the new hardware.


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When processing queries that return MANY rows, and when you put a limit on the number of rows you fetch from the result set, you should always call this function to close the current result set, because the SQL server may still be pending waiting for other rows to be fetched by your script. When you call this function, the Sybase client in PHP3 will signal to Sybase SQL Server that other pending results can be ignored, and the SQL server connection will return faster to the "waiting command" state, instead of keeping in the "suspend" state, saving much resources on the SQL-Server. In fact, it is a good idea to call this function after all your queries to save up SQL server resources.
Note that when processing SQL batchs with multiple queries, and stored procedure calls that return multiple result sets, there's no provision here to let the server return the next result set. There should be another function like sybase_next_result() to close the current result set, and let the SQL server go on the next SQL statements. Such a function would return a status that indicates if further results are coming or if the query is really terminated.


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Valley and Mountain Hiking Tour in Cappadocia
Between rock-cut houses, monasteries, churches, chapels, and valleys, is a breathtaking tour for Mountains Hikers. Cappadocia is the best hiking region.
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Valley and Mountain Hiking Tour in Cappadocia
Between rock-cut houses, monasteries, churches, chapels, and valleys, is a breathtaking tour for Mountains Hikers. Cappadocia is the best hiking region.
You can be picked up from either Cappadocia Hotel or Nevşehir/Kayseri Airport, Your tour guide will provide you with a complimentary Cappadocia City map, a full map of turkey, some brochures on turkey. The tour will take approximately 2 days and afterward, you will be driven back to the same collection point that you were met in the morning.
Starting Points: Turkey/Nevsehir: Cappadocia
Day 1
Mount Hasan Trek
The day will begin by having a drive to Ihlara Village where we will start a full day of trekking through Ihlara Valley, this lovely valley is not to far away from Mount Hasan and the canyon depth is about 100m and was formed by the Melendiz river thousands of years before. This amazing valley housed around 4000 dwellings and with that there was hundreds of churches too, the population here was of about 80,000! It has to be said that this vally is very wonderful to hike through as it is surrounded by vineyards - pistachio trees but also you will be able to hear the sounds of the gushing water which makes you feel relaxed, as you hike through you will be able to spot numerous wildlife here too such as lizards, frogs, birds, butterflies and even on occasion you can see eagles.
As mentioned earlier there are hundreds of churches within the valley which are actually spilt into 2 groups - Ihlara Group includes : Ağaçalti, Pürenli Seki, Kokar, Eğritas and also the Yilani churches and all of these reflect oriental influences, the other group of churches is named Belisirma Group which includes : Sümbüllü church and many other that hold Byzantine characteristics. After trekking through Ihlara valley and along the river side we will then reach Selime Town. Selime Town is similar to Ihlara Valley with its rock cut out churches and from them the most important is the Selime Cathedral, it is also a rock cut out church but is on a elevated area and on the inside there are 2 rows of rock columns and these columns divide the cathedral into 3 sections.
After you have seen and explored the wonders of Selime Monastery we will head to meet the bus and allocated driver and drive over to Helvadere where we will set up camp near to the abandoned Ski Hotel so you can have a good rest and prepare for a new mountian hiking tour tomorrow.
Day 2
Aladaglar and Bolkar Mountain Hike
In the morning you wll wake up early for a good healthy breakfast and afterwards we will head out on our hike whilst watching the beautiful golden sunrise, the plan is to reach the summit before noon rolls around. The summit of Aladaglar & Bolkar Mountains is approx 3268mt and offer the most amazing views so much so you can also see Salt Lake which is also known as Tüz Gölü and is the 2nd biggest lake within Turkey.
Upon these mountains there will be a chance to explore the ruins of highest chuch in Turkey. After you have had a good exploration of the church and soaked up the wonderful views its time to return back to camp and have your late lunch at Helvadere - where you can sample some traditional Turksh Cuisine. Once lunch is over we will head on way way back to Göreme, and on the way we will make a short stop so you can have a nice cooling down swim in Nargölü lake - this lake is a crater lake and was formed when a volcano exploded, and the hot sulfurous water still bubbles up from somewhere below the surface now and then and this water is told to be able to cure all kinds of skin problems.
As the Cappadocia Mountain Hiking Tour comes to an end its time to get back on the bus and make our way back to your drop off at your allocated points from this morning and from here is where we say goodbye we trust that your time with us has been everything you wanted and much more and you have alot of memories to take back with you. We will look forward to seeing you again on one of our many other package tours or even on a daily tour of ours!
End Points: Turkey/Nevsehir: Cappadocia
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What's Included
• Pick up and Drop Off
• Professional Licensed Guide
• Entrance Fees
• Transport and Driver
• 1 night camp accomdation
What's Excluded
• Drinks
• Gratitude's
• Lunch
Travel Tips
• We recommend that you wear comfortable clothes and comfortable walking shoes.
• The clothes you bring with you should be according to the season of your trip. Shorts, t-shirts can be worn. There is no obligation to cover your head or shoulders In Turkey.
• For the Churches or mosques, a visit to these places require a respect. So proper dressing into such places is advised.
• You can get bottles of soft drinks, it can be scorching hot during the day.
• Hat, sunscreen and umbrella for the rainy or sunny days, especially days can be hot in Archaeological sites.
• Good quality sunglasses are advised and photo-chromatic lenses for those who wear spectacles.
• Cameras (but tripods are not allowed in Turkish Museums and sites).
• The wheelchair is accessible, therefore just request from us when you are booking your trip.
• You may pay the entrance fees by credit card or Turkish Liras. (The Museums charging only Turkish Liras and Credit cards.)
• This tour involves over a mile of walking on uneven, cobblestone surfaces.
• Restrooms are available at the entrance and the exit of Archaeological Sites.
• The tour document with details and confirmations will be e-mailed after your prebooking.
• This Tour is available all year round.
• Daily, a Private small group tour of Turkey.
• This tour operated with just your party and a guide/driver.
Tour Reminder!
You can create a reminder for yourself for this tour. We will send you a reminder e-mail/sms about this tour on the date you specify.
Customer Comments - Tripadvisor Write A Review!
Johnson RFebruary 2022
Great experience in Turkey and Greece!
We participated in the combined tour organization of Turkey and Greece and we had a wonderful experience. Gigil's employees always met our needs on this trip that I went on with my wife. We did not have any problems and we are very satisfied. We continued on our way with 6 different guides during the 16-day tour and we thank them all. Thanks gigil.
Peter SFebruary 2022
Harun fue una guía fabulosa.
Recorrimos Éfeso en un día muy caluroso. El recorrido incluyó las casas con terraza y requirió caminar mucho, lo cual fue difícil para mi esposa. Nuestro guía Harun, fue muy considerado y alentador e hizo que el recorrido fuera más agradable e informativo. También nos gustó el comentario en profundidad que no se limita a fechas y horas, sino a una comprensión más amplia de la historia que estábamos viendo. Fue fácil trabajar con Gigil y fue de gran ayuda para configurar esto. Ojalá los hubiéramos usado en otros lugares de nuestro viaje. Su precio era más competitivo.
Steven AFebruary 2022
Una excelente manera de aproverchar al máximo Éfeso
Reservamos una excursión con Gigil y pasamos un rato relajado, informativo y sin prisas. Mientras que otros estaban en grandes grupos y claramente estaban tan lejos de su guía que no podían escuchar, fuimos invitados al sitio con un guía experto, Harun, quien nos guió de manera experta a través del sitio antes de la multitud. Nos animó a ver las casas adosadas que se convirtieron en un punto culminante. Lo hemos recomendado a otros y no puedo pensar en nada negativo. Ah, y viajamos en una cómoda camioneta Mercedes. Fue lo más destacado de nuestro crucero por el Mediterraneo.
Ashenafi TFebruary 2022
A Perfect Day in Turkey!
If you are going to Kusadasi, be sure to book with Gigil Travel. We spent 5 days in Rome, 12 days on a cruise, and 5 days in Venice and this was the best tour of all we did. The van price was reasonable and shared among 6 of us. We went to St. Mary's home, Ephesus and had a wonderful lunch. We were concerned about visiting Turkey with the unrest we have had with them. We felt very safe. The town is very modern and clean. The area at the port was great for shopping and the prices are very reasonable. I would highly recommend Eren and this tour!
Akramul Ghani CFebruary 2022
Toured Ephesus with Harun
We had a wonderful tour of Ephesus with Harun, a well prepared guide who provided a terrific experience for our whole family (ranging in age from 10 to 77). Highly recommend Gigil tour company.
Zhang MDecember 2021
An amazing day in Ephesus with Gigil
My husband, daughter and I used Eren and had the pleasure of having Eren as our tour guide. She was extremely professional and very very knowledgable. She was very respectful our our time and wanted to make sure we got to do everything we wanted to do. I highly highly recommend her!
Carla GDecember 2021
Fabulous tour and great guide
A great tour and guide. Our guide Harun was very friendly and informative. It's well paced in a place where it would be easy to get bogged down in historical details. It provided the right balance of complete information with interesting information thrown in. Thoughtfully provided umbrellas for shade as you are really out in Ephesus and it can get quite hot. We especially liked his choice for a lunch break where we tasted many traditional Turkish dishes. . .
Joanna GDecember 2021
Reliable Agent!
They respond quickly to email and chat. They can customize your trip and the best part is, our tour guide Işık speaks fluent English and knows a lot about the places you go. He also handles the tour well and lets you enjoy the trip. We also told him that we enjoyed taking photos and that he took notes on special spots for the photos. Finally, the journey will not be perfect without your transportation, a brand new mercedes benz minibus with our lovely driver who makes everything safe... I highly recommend this tour if you visit Ephesus! Thanks Haron!
Katrina BDecember 2021
Great visit to a beautiful Ancient City!
I can't say enough good things about our tour with Harun & Gigil. They were very helpful, answering all my question about their services & living up to expectations. Harun was well versed in the history & made the experience extremely enjoyable. Definitely book with this group, they were the best we used in 5 places we visited... Thanks Gigil.
Charles J SDecember 2021
Samsun is a great place!
Samsun was a city that I wanted to see for a long time and was finally possible to visit, and I saw with my own eyes that it was a wonderful place. It was also enjoyable to walk here in cold weather. We got on well with my guide and I was satisfied. I would also like to thank the organization company.
Liuba BolocanNovember 2021
My Istanbul tour
It was truly an EXCELLENT experience. The tour was very enjoyable. Thank you very muchh to our guide Harun for everything. The information on historical monuments was very detailed and interesting. We realy enjoyed the tour. Thanks
Lucia SNovember 2021
Very good tour company
We did the Ephesus tour, everything was very well organized. Our guide Harun was both knowledgeable and very kind. Driver Omut was a very cheerful person and made us laugh a lot. We were very pleased with this tour that we participated with my friends. Thank you Gigil staff. I would definitely recommend this team.
Olga Iasnaia SarserAugust 2021
My Ephesus Tour experience :)
As someone who likes to travel, discover new places and have fun, Ephesus tour was just for me. Ephesus is unlike any place I have visited before. It was a very original place. I took the Ephesus tour from Gigil Travel and was very satisfied. I would recommend it to everyone.
Daniel DeanSeptember 2021
ephesus private full day tour
I purchased a private full day ephesus-virgin mary main tour from this company. The reason I took a private tour was to spend private time with my family. We had a great time, we had fun. Glad I bought this tour. I strongly recommend it to everyone.
Billie Ann BNovember 2021
Great guide and beautiful Ephesus
We spent a day touring the ancient city of Ephesus and it was wonderful. Our guide Harun was great. He had a lot of knowledge and gave us plenty of time to see all the sights. We came to Kusadasi by ship and joined the tour from there. We did not book directly with Gigil but from our experience we would be happy to tour with them again.
Youssef YNovember 2021
Ancient Ruins Tour
Tour guides are known to love their job, they are knowledgeable and well-equipped. Harun, who guided us on the Ephesus Tour, makes the tour a pleasure with his communication and expression. Service vehicles, no disruptions to their schedules, are worth a try when you have an emergency. Unlike other tours, they carry out the tour program with fewer people and showing closer attention. We were very satisfied. Thanks to Mr. Harun and his team Gigil.
Tomas ROctober 2021
I recommend a reliable agent.
Very efficient agency: Istanbul, Izmir, Kusadasi, Antalya, Cappadocia… intercity transfers and airport-hotel connections for this Turkey tour realized with great flexibility for the personalized design of a series of tours in Turkey. excellent communication during times, tours and transfers. Note the very good Turkish road network, which surprised us even for the long Antalya-Cappadocia highway connection… Thank you gigil travel.
Monika ZOctober 2021
Increíble viaje a Éfeso
Compartiendo todos los hechos de la gira con una risa, Haron fue el guía más divertido. Él es absolutamente conocedor de la historia y nos brindó un gran viaje. Omut era nuestro conductor y era el más dulce. ¡Ven al mundo y haz un recorrido con estos chicos!
Gabriel BNovember 2021
Hermoso pavo!!!!
Turquía es un país hermoso, su gente es amable y servicial. Tour en globo en Capadocia y super Goreme, estaba en el tour del Bósforo, lo mejor es caminar y perderse por las calles de Estambul, Kusadasi, Pamukkale, Éfeso !! Regresé a España feliz porque el viaje de mi hija y mi yerno fue todo un éxito. Y cuando todo va bien en un viaje es por una buena organización. Por ello, me gustaría agradecer a todo el grupo Gigil Travel por su excelente trabajo, puntualidad y desear que nuestros recuerdos estén de la mejor manera posible. Espero volver lo antes posible y volver a recibir su servicio. Gracias gigil...
Wilfredo LSeptember 2021
Good team nice guide knowledge and love of his country
My wife and i used eren as a guide we launched turkey from istanbul, gellibolu, pamukkale, ephesus cappadocia and many other places, eren's knowledge of turkey, we didn't miss anything, him as a guide I advise. istanbul is an amazing city and something you will miss a lot without a guide, I would recommend eren and his team without hesitation and hope to use them again in the future.
Victor LOctober 2021
Daily Gallipoli tour
We joined the Gallipoli tour at the request of my Australian girlfriend. They were picked up on time from our Sultanahmet hotel early in the morning. Our guide Mr. Bülent was really great and very knowledgeable. We had a very nice day. We would like to thank Gigil Travel and especially Mr. Harun.
daria YOctober 2021
An unforgettable experience in Turkey thanks to Gigil Travel!
Gigil Travel is an excellent travel agency. I am satisfied with the good service, courtesy, punctuality and professionalism of this agency. I would especially like to congratulate Harun who gave me a personalized and very efficient treatment. I had a nice trip in many cities, especially in Istanbul, Izmir, Kusadasi, Antalya, Fetiye, Cappadocia and all hotels, transfers, meals, excursions were excellent, Guides, friendly staff, good hotels in very beautiful places. Receive all my thanks and commitment to continue to be your customer.
BRAD POctober 2021
Friendliness, punctuality, professionalism
We were in Turkey from October 20th to November 1st, they suggested several operators in this country but when I looked at the prices it looked high, they also forced us to coordinate the tour to start on a specific day. While surfing the internet, I came across Gigil Travel representative Eren, who exchanged a lot of questions from me and made explanations. There were no delays in transfers. All that was agreed was fulfilled. We enjoyed very much Istanbul, Antalya, Cappadocia, Pamukale and Kusadasi. Hotels in the interior of Turkey were real surprises!.. The guides accompanying us were very prepared and enthusiastic. Do not miss the balloon tour in Cappadocia, which is an unforgettable experience.
Diego QOctober 2021
Excelente organización gracias gigil
Si estás planeando ir a Turquía y quieres disfrutar del viaje y no quieres lidiar con ningún problema, no dudes en elegir Gigil Travel. Pasamos 15 días con nuestro grupo de 5 personas en Estambul, Antalya, Capadocia y la costa del mar Egeo (4 vuelos, 3 hoteles, alquiler de coches, visitas guiadas y conductor) y no tuvimos ni un solo problema. El personal de Gigil Travel son excelentes personas que harán de su viaje una experiencia inolvidable. Definitivamente recomendado.
Emrah ÖOctober 2021
Turkey highlights package tour
Our tour started from Istanbul and then continued on the route of Izmir, Kusadasi, Ephesus, Pamukkale, Cappadocia. We thoroughly enjoyed our tour. Organization, guides and hotels were good. Our guides were kind and knowledgeable people. We would like to spend more time in Cappadocia. It's a great place! We will return to our country soon, but we want to come back to Turkey on holiday at the first opportunity. We would like to thank the gigil team for this beautiful organization. Good agency.
desireOOctober 2021
9 nights 10 days tour of Turkey
Great, can't recommend this company enough. We spent 9 nights and 10 days on a small group tour that started in Istanbul, Gallipoli. Kusadasi, Ephesus, Pamukkale, Cappadocia. We have stayed in great hotels and our guides are fantastic, their knowledge is outstanding, our health and safety are always the most important. Thanks again for our wonderful holiday and eternal memories of your beautiful country.
MoonlightNovember 2021
excellent service
We wanted to have a Turkey travel experience with Gigil. Booking and all their responses were very quick. They organized a big trip and after we paid the deposit, they got back to us with a price reduction when one of their suppliers dropped the price. Unfortunately when we had to postpone the trip due to the Corona virus outbreak and again how well Gigil handled the situation. We highly recommend them. We did the tour on our new tour date and we were very satisfied with the Gigil team. You are awesome!
Gail WOctober 2021
Grande passeio na Turquia
Excelente serviço da Gigil Travel. Era a nossa primeira vez na Turquia e queríamos contratar uma agência que também incluísse tours em português. Fizemos um tour pela Capadócia, Kusadasi, Pamukkale e Éfeso. Desde a primeira vez que escrevi para a agência a Erin nos deu um tratamento personalizado, uma boa comunicação via whatsapp. Fomos autorizados a fazer alterações ao itinerário do site, incluindo um voo de balão na Capadócia e um dia extra para Priene, Didima e Miletus. Boa estadia e tudo perfeitamente organizado e sem complicações (desde traslados do aeroporto, pick up para passeios, etc). Guias muito amigáveis com bom nível de português; grupos realmente pequenos em passeios. Agência totalmente recomendada.
safak tOctober 2021
Réponse rapide et bon service à un prix abordable
Nous avons visité la Turquie avec une visite privée de 8 jours depuis Gigil Travel. Je dois apprécier la réponse rapide que j'ai reçue d'Eren concernant la planification de la tournée ou toute question que j'ai reçue par la poste. Service très professionnel. Les micros étaient parfaitement synchronisés. Les emplacements des hôtels étaient très bons avec un accès facile aux monuments et au centre-ville. La maison seigneuriale historique de la Cappadoce avait une belle vue sur les montgolfières au petit matin. Bien que la chambre soit un très petit hôtel de Kusadasi, la vue sur le coucher de soleil sur la mer était incroyable. Des visites locales dans ces endroits sont également bien organisées. La meilleure partie était un coût de visite raisonnable avec de bons arrangements. Ils ont un système de réponse rapide pour que vous n'ayez pas à vous inquiéter car Eren était toujours là pour répondre aux questions. J'ai été absolument impressionné par le service et je recommanderais certainement Gigil Travel pour des visites en Turquie.
Irma LNovember 2021
My Antalya Experience
Thanks to Harun for accompanying us on this tour. a very knowledgeable and friendly guide about history. If you want to come to Turkey and have a holiday, you should definitely see Antalya. Visiting this city is not just for its beauty, this city has everything a great place has to offer. Nature, food and people were really friendly fun.
Roshni Bansi MNovember 2021
Wonderful ancient city tour
Side Ancient City, Patara Ancient City, Xanthos Ancient City, Magydos Ancient City, Termessos Ancient City are places with incredible historical touches. If you are interested in historical events and historical ruins, this place is for you. Our guide, Harun, was very interested and knowledgeable in history and also a very kind gentleman. Now we are on a tour of Istanbul, and we started to visit historical places here. Turkey is a wonderful country for historical ruins.
Brown DNovember 2021
Istanbul and Antalya holidays
I visited a few cities in Turkey before, Istanbul was one of them, but Antalya was the place that touched my heart. Its warm air, beautiful sands and deep blue sea will take all your work fatigue away. As a businessman, I want to come to Antalya again at the first opportunity and have a holiday again. Endless thanks to the gigil team for giving me this wonderful experience.
Jennif KNovember 2021
Ephesus ancient city and istanbul tours
We came to Turkey to see Ephesus. When we saw it from the photos, we thought it was a great place and now we felt that historical texture alive. It is truly a breathtaking area. Terrace houses, the temple of the Virgin Mary, are a beautiful legacy for humanity. We would like to thank our guide gentleman for his interest. My husband and I had a very happy tour. We had a trip to Istanbul on the way back from Ephesus and in a word, Istanbul is a wonderful place. I would highly recommend those who will come to take a tour of the Bosphorus and eat fish.
Vanessa BOctober 2021
Thank you Turkey!
Theimussa and the ancient city of Olympos were my favorite places that caught my attention the most during our tour. I had a really enjoyable and fun time.
Orlene GeraldOctober 2021
Seven churches of revelation
Traveling in these lands as a Christian has increased my faith. Virgin Mary's house affected my wife and me a lot, we had emotional moments. It has been a good memory for us. Thank you to the tour organizers for adding pleasure to this beautiful trip.
Mehmet AOctober 2021
Aspendos, Perge, Ephesus, Artemis, Hiearapolis, Pergamon...
Aspendos and Ephesus were really fascinating. It was incredibly enjoyable to walk among the Roman and Hellenic ruins. We were very satisfied with our tour experience. The historical knowledge of the guide was admirable. Thank you harun for giving us an incredible experience with his interest and knowledge.
mariajosereyes03October 2021
Atenas, Santorini, Estambul Éfeso ... excursiones
la gira por grecia que hice con mi novio fue genial. Tuvimos la oportunidad de ver maravillosos sitios históricos como Atenas y Delfos. Meteora, la vista desde la cima de la montaña era increíble. Después de los lugares históricos, disfrutamos de la atmósfera de las casas blancas y azules y la hermosa vista al mar en santorini. Una isla en armonía con sus casas y el mar. Nos gustaría agradecer al sr. vedo y gigil por su interés en ayudarnos a organizar nuestra gira. Estamos a punto de completar el tour por Turquía que recomendaron, Estambul, Éfeso, Pamukkale, Kusadasi, tal vez estemos pensando en Capadocia si tenemos tiempo. Conocimos diferentes guías durante los recorridos, fueron buenos en general, tuvimos algunas cosas negativas, pero solucionamos el problema .. gracias
Kenan SAugust 2021
14 Days Greece and Turkey Highlights Tour
I wanted to visit both Greece and Turkey and this tour was just for me. I enjoyed it immensely for 14 days. I especially benefited from the knowledge and experience of our guide Harun. Thank you to him. In general, the tour organization was very good. Despite the pandemic period, they were meticulous and concerned about service. They quickly fixed the problems and problems encountered. Although I have been to Istanbul many times before, I had not visited the historical places in detail. And now I'm very happy to be traveling. My words will not be enough to describe Cappadocia. Athens is a city of history that must be seen by everyone. It affected me a lot. My days in Santorini, Mykonos and Kusadasi were mostly spent resting and sunbathing. With this tour, I was able to both visit historical places and have a vacation. Thank you to the company for the organization.
agrunblatt21October 2021
gigli travel
they booked me a custom antiquity tour in Turkey that was amazing visiting Alexandria Troas and Assos. I consider myself a history buff but the guide blew me away. I walked the ground of Aristotle and St. Paul and Fredrick Barbarosa! Thank you Erin form GiGi travel for arranging.
Odul COctober 2021
Fethiye and Cappadocia Super Locations!
It was a wonderful holiday experience for us. We had a great week with my wife. After the magnificent atmosphere of Istanbul, we had the opportunity to visit historical places in Antalya and swim in its beautiful beaches. However, the place we enjoyed the most was Fethiye's hidden beaches and paragliding and Cappadocia balloon tour. Cappadocia is a truly fascinating place. It impressed us a lot and we had a great time with my wife. We would like to thank Ms. Eren who was with us throughout the tour. Even though we had some problems with the hotel and communication, they found a solution very quickly. He is very caring and kind person.
AdamOctober 2021
Kusadasi-Pamukkale Tour
We were looking for a suitable city for a holiday with my family and we discovered Kusadasi. After doing some research about Kusadasi, we decided to come here. It has a very nice atmosphere, but it is also a region with incredible historical artifacts. Our guide was very knowledgeable and very kind. So thank you to the agency. Ephesus and the Virgin Mary is one of the places you should definitely go. After Kusadasi we will go to Pamukkale. Glad we came here. Excellent experience, I recommend it to everyone.
Melek CSeptember 2021
Greece and Turkey travel experience
During the e-mail traffic between me and the agency, I thought they are not professional until I complete my holiday that we shaped the itinerary with my experienced tour advisor. I wanna thank to all agency staff from beginning to the end, made my holiday an unforgettable memory for us. Especially the tour guide Polat in Istanbul and Eleni in Athens. Also Cappadocia and Olympia were charming historical places. Hot air balloon tour was a unique experience for us. A special thank to our consultant Vedat for a fully historical and local life experienced destination program. We definitely recommend gigil travel which we have got a nice travel experience with them.
özgür çMarch 2021
Kapadokya ve Balon
İlk kez tura çıktım ve çok keyif aldım gerçekten eğlenceliydi. Kapadokya tahmin ettiğimden daha güzel bir yermiş özellikle balon turu harikaydı. Bunu gigil'in ekibi sayesinde öğrendim. Tek gitmiş olsaydım bu kadar bilgi edinemezdim sanırım. Güler yüzlü, hijyen kurallarına dikkat ediyor olmanız takdir edilesi. Her şey için çok teşekkür ederim.
BurakAugust 2021
Antalya Kemer war eine schöne Erfahrung!
Es war unsere erste Tourerfahrung für meine Frau und mich und wir waren sehr zufrieden. Ein großes Dankeschön an die Mitarbeiter von Gigil, die diese Tour für uns arrangiert und uns mit ihrer Fürsorge und Unterstützung eine unglaubliche Erfahrung gemacht haben. Antalya Kaleiçi war ein wunderbarer Ort, das Meer, der Sand und die Sonne waren in Kemer sehr angenehm.
Cihan KMay 2021
Muhteşem Kapadokya
İlk kez gitmiş olduğum Kapadokya'ya hayran kaldım. Mistik havasıyla muhteşem oyulmuş taş evleri apayrı güzeldi. Olağanüstü güzellikte yapmış olduğum balon tur ile kendimi muhteşem hissettim. Her şey çok güzel ve keyifliydi. Gigil çalışanlarına, rehber ve şoföre bir kez daha teşekkür ederim.
Dilek BApril 2021
Istanbul, Efes, Pamukkale Turu
Arkadaşımın tavsiyesi ile katıldığımız bir turdu çok keyifli ve çok güzeldi ailemle gayet iyi bir zaman geçirdik tur çalışanları çok ilgili ve naziklerdi. Istanbul zaten harika bir yer. Efes ve Hierapolis muazzamdı, tarihi kalıntıların arasında yürümek muhteşemdi. Yeni bir turda tekrar görüşmek üzere :)
Soren KAugust 2021
Would definitely recommend!
Our Turkey trip was a very good experience. We had the pleasure of meeting Eren who was our tour guide while visiting Istanbul in August. He knew lotta details and fun facts about all the sights and other also information about Sultanahmet itself. We were a group of 7 adults and 3 yo toddler. He was very energetic and informative and accommodated the needs of everyone in the group. Would definitely recommend!
Ömer YMay 2021
Turkiye Paket Programı
Tatilimiz boyunca her detayla ilgilendiğiniz, 24 saat ulaşılabilir olduğunuz ve bizi özel hissetirdiğiniz için çok teşekkürler. Ayrıca harika bir tatil geçirmemize yardımcı olan tüm Gigil travel çalışanlarına da teşekkür ederim.
Let's Customize Your Trip!
Prepare your own tour plan!
How to meet my tour guide?
Your tour guide/staff will be waiting at pick up points such as your hotels' lobby/main gate, a specific point etc. according to timing which you were given before tour date.
Can I state the departure time for my tour?
Of course! We also operate tours on private basis, so you can customize the departure time, if it is a private service.
Can I choose the sights to visit on my own?
On private tours. You can choose the sights and museums along with all sort of criteria you like by your agent according to content of service.
How to buy museum tickets?
If the museum tickets are included in your tour, you do not need to buy it as extra. But if the museum ticket/s is/are not included in your tour, still no need to buy tickets in advance, during the tour your tour guide will help you to purchase them. Official tour guides have priority at museum ticket offices.
Am I traveling with a group on the tour?
If the museum tickets are included in your tour, you do not need to buy it as extra. But if the museum ticket/s is/are not included in your tour, still no need to buy tickets in advance, during the tour your tour guide will help you to purchase them. Official tour guides have priority at museum ticket offices.
How about the transportation?
If the museum tickets are included in your tour, you do not need to buy it as extra. But if the museum ticket/s is/are not included in your tour, still no need to buy tickets in advance, during the tour your tour guide will help you to purchase them. Official tour guides have priority at museum ticket offices.
How do I pay?
If the museum tickets are included in your tour, you do not need to buy it as extra. But if the museum ticket/s is/are not included in your tour, still no need to buy tickets in advance, during the tour your tour guide will help you to purchase them. Official tour guides have priority at museum ticket offices.
What is the language of group tours?
If the museum tickets are included in your tour, you do not need to buy it as extra. But if the museum ticket/s is/are not included in your tour, still no need to buy tickets in advance, during the tour your tour guide will help you to purchase them. Official tour guides have priority at museum ticket offices.
What type of restaurants do you use?
If the museum tickets are included in your tour, you do not need to buy it as extra. But if the museum ticket/s is/are not included in your tour, still no need to buy tickets in advance, during the tour your tour guide will help you to purchase them. Official tour guides have priority at museum ticket offices.
How to pay for my services?
If the museum tickets are included in your tour, you do not need to buy it as extra. But if the museum ticket/s is/are not included in your tour, still no need to buy tickets in advance, during the tour your tour guide will help you to purchase them. Official tour guides have priority at museum ticket offices.
Am I traveling with a group?
If the museum tickets are included in your tour, you do not need to buy it as extra. But if the museum ticket/s is/are not included in your tour, still no need to buy tickets in advance, during the tour your tour guide will help you to purchase them. Official tour guides have priority at museum ticket offices.
Are any Vaccinations Required For tourist entering Turkey?
There are no vaccination requirements for any international traveller. The World Health Organization web site, www.who.org, provides vaccination certificate requirements by country, geographic distributions of potential health hazards to travellers.
Can We Choose our Hotels?
Yes, you can. All you have to do is just letting us know what hotels you would like to stay in while your agent creates your itinerary.
Do I Have to Pay Full Amount To Book A Package Tours?
No. You will need to pay %50 of the total amount of your package tour in order to complete your booking. You will be required to pay the rest of the amount 30 days before your arrival day in Turkey.
Do I need a Visa To Turkey?
Citizens of most of countries must have a visa to enter Turkey. U.S. citizens may obtain a visa upon entry into Turkey or in prior to departure from one of the five Turkish Consulates in the United States. Please find your state in the Turkish Consulates Jurisdiction (https://www.evisa.gov.tr/en).
How Can I Travel in Turkey?
By Plane Virtually every major city in Turkey has air service and Turkish Airlines offers nationwide services. Most flights connect through Istanbul or Ankara, both of which have domestic and international terminals. You can check Turkish Airlines.
How Should Visitors Dress in Turkey?
Casual wear is appropriate for most tour excursions. Women wear pants or skirts, but when visiting mosques it is recommended that they cover their heads with a scarf and both sexes should not wear shorts out of respects for religious customs.
Is it Safe to Travel in Turkey?
Turkey is one of the safest countries in the world in which to travel, and its crime rate is low in comparison to many Western European countries. Interpol ranked Turkey as the safest holiday destination in Europe for travelers. Naturally, we recommend.
Should I exchange money before I go to Turkey?
The highly favourable exchange rate makes travel to Turkey extremely affordable. Most banks in the U.S. do not have Turkish Lira. However, Turkish currency is easily obtainable upon arrival in Turkey at any exchange office or bank.
What are the departure dates of your tours?
There is no specific date! You can just pick-up your own dates to depart your package tour! In another word, our tours depart every day all year-round.
What is a Turkish bath (Hamam)?
Communal baths were used in Roman and Byzantine times, but as the name Turkish Bath suggests, they played a significant role in Ottoman culture. At a time when the concept of cleanliness was not yet accepted in Europe.
Where can I find information on Festivals, Fairs and other Events in Turkey?
There are more than 100 festivals in Turkey every year. In addition to the local festivals organized in almost every city of the country, international culture and art festivals are held in major cities including Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir and Antalya.
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Good to Know
Currency Regulation
There is no limit on the amount of foreign currency that may be brought into Turkey, but not more than 5 5,000 worth of Turkish currency may be brought into or taken out of the country.
Exchange Slips
The exchange slips for the conversion of foreign currency into Turkish lira should be kept, since you may be required to show these when reconverting your Turkish lira back into foreign currency, and when taking souvenirs out of the country (to prove that they have been purchased with legally exchanged foreign currency).
Customs Regulations
On Entry
The following items may be brought into the country duty free personal effects of the tourist.
One TV, one color pocket TV (maximum 16 cm screen), one TV-tape-radio combination, one video recording camera and 5 video cassettes (blank); 5 records, 5 tape cassettes or compact discs, one video player, cine-projector (8 mm) and 10 rolls of film (blank), one slide projector, one pocket computer (maximum main memory capacity Ram 128k. Byte), electronic playing devices (without cassette – keyboard), one transistor radio and portable radio – tape player (its specification to be determined by the Ministry of Finance and Customs), one Walkman or pocket tape recorder, one portable compact disc player, binoculars (one pair, except night binoculars), harmonica, mandolin, flageolet, flute, guitar, and accordion (only one of each type, maximum 3 musical instruments). personal sports equipment, necessary medical items, bicycle, baby buggy, toys, 200 cigarettes and 50 cigars. 200 grams of tobacco and 200 cigarette papers, or 50 grams of chewing tobacco or 200 grams of pipe tobacco, or 200 grams of snuff (In addition to the above allowances, it is possible to purchase 400 cigarettes, 100 cigars, and 500 grams of pipe tobacco from the Turkish Duty Free Shops upon entering the country), 1.5kg. coffee, 1.5kg. instant coffee, 500 grams of tea, 1 kilo chocolate and 1 kilo sweets, 5 (100 cc) or 7 (70 cc) bottles of wines and/or spirits, five bottles of perfume (120 ml max. each), one portable typewriter, one camera with 5 rolls of film, first aid, and spare parts for the car, other items necessary during the journey.
Valuable items and all items with a value of over $ 15,000 must be registered in the owner's passport upon entering Turkey, for control upon exit.
Antiques brought into the country must be registered in the owner's passport to avoid difficulties on exit.
Sharp instruments (including camping knives) and weapons may not be brought into the country without special permission.
The bringing into the country, trade, and consumption of marijuana and all other narcotics is strictly forbidden and subject to heavy punishment.
Gifts, not exceeding 500 DM in value and not for trading purposes, may be brought into the country duty free. In addition, gifts not exceeding 500 OM in value may be posted to Turkey duty free, if the date stamped by the sending post office falls one month before, or one month after the following holidays: Seker Bayrami, Kurban Bayrami, Christmas, and New Year's.
Cellular Telephones entering the country must be accompanied by a certification form showing ownership. Ownership must be documented in the passport of the owner and will be checked on entry and exit. For more information contact the Ministry of transportation, General Directorate at Tel: (312) 212 35 72 – 212 60 10 (10 lines), Fax: (312) 221 32 26 or write to Ulastirma Bakanligi Telsiz Gn. Md. Emek – Ankara.
On Exit
Gifts and souvenirs: for a new carpet, a proof of purchase; for old items, a certificate from a directorate of a museum is necessary. Exporting antiques from Turkey is forbidden.
Valuable personal items can only be taken out of the country providing they have been registered in the owner's passport upon entry, or providing they can show they have been purchased with legally exchanged currency.
Minerals may only be exported from the country with a special document obtained from the MTA (General Directorate of Mining Exploration and Research). Etudler Dairesi 06520, Ankara. Phone: +90 312 287 3430 /1622, Fax: +90 312 285 4271
Tax Refund
You Can Receive a Tax Refund for the Goods You Purchased In Turkey! Refunds will be made to travelers who do not reside in Turkey. All goods (including food and drinks) are included in the refunds with the exclusion of services rendered. The minimum amount of purchase that qualifies for refund is 5.000.000 TL. Retailers that qualify for tax refunds must be "authorized for refund." These retailers must display a permit received from their respective tax office.
The retailer will make four copies of the receipt for your refund, three of which will be received by the purchaser. If photocopies of the receipt are received the retailer must sign and stamp the copies to validate them. If you prefer the refund to be made by check, a Tax-free Shopping Check for the amount to be refunded to the customer must be given along with the receipt.
For the purchaser to benefit from this exemption he must leave the country within three months with the goods purchased showing them to Turkish customs officials along with the appropriate receipts and! or check.
There are four ways to receive your refund:
If the retailer gives you a check it can be cashed at a bank in the customs area at the airport. If it is not possible to cash the check upon departure or if you do not wish to cash it then, .e customer must, within one month, send a copy of the receipt showing that the goods have left the country to the retailer who will, within ten days upon receiving the receipt, send a bank transfer to the purchaser's hank or address.
If the certified receipt and check are brought back to the retailer on a subsequent visit thin one-month of the date of customs certification, the refund can be made directly to the purchaser. Retailers may directly refund the amount to trustworthy customers upon purchase. The refund may be made by the organization of those companies that are authorized to make tax refunds.
Additional information:
Ministry of Finance and Tax Dept. General Directorate, (Maliye Bakanligi, Gelirler Genel Mudurlugu) KDV Subesi 06100, Ulus – Ankara Phone: +90 312 310 3880 / 725 – 728 – 735, Fax: +90 312 311 4510
Tourist Health
Turkish Tourist Health Society (Turizm Sagligi Dernegi-Hacettepe Üniversitesi Tip Fakültesi Plastik ve Rekonstrüktif Cerrahi Ana Bilim Dali, Sihhiye 06100 ANKARA
+90 312 311 9393 – 310 98 08) performs the functions below, to provide the travelers in the entire country, mainly in the touristic regions, with proper health care:
- to secure food hygiene
- to prevent environmental pollution
- to ensure hygiene and healthy working-conditions in touristic establishments.
Health Regulations for Pets
For those who wish to bring domestic animals into the country the following are required:
- Pets have to be 3 months and older
- An International Certificate of Health issued within 15 days before the travel
- The Identification Card
- Vaccination Card
If you have an official certificate, you may bring one cat, one bird, one dog and 10 aquarium fish into the country. To get information for the importation of pets, please see the Consular Services.
Motorist Rules
Those who wish to enter the country with their vans, minibuses, automobiles, station wagons, bicycles, motorcycles, motorbikes, sidecars, buses, motor coaches, trailers, caravans or other transport vehicles, will have to provide the following documentations:
- Passport.
- International driving license.
- Car license (document where all details related to the car and the owner's name are registered). If it is somebody else's vehicle a power of attorney should be provided.
- International green card (Insurance card). The TR sign should be visible.
- Transit book "Carnet de passage" (for those who want to proceed to the Middle East).
The vehicle can be brought into Turkey for up to 6 Months. The owner should declare on the opposite form, the date of departure at the border gate and should absolutely ve the country at the date declared. If for any important reason the staying period has to be ended, it is necessary to apply to;
The Turkish Touring and Automobile Club (Türkiye Turing ve Otomobil Kurumu) 1. Sanayi Sitesi Yani, 4.Levent, Istanbul, Phone: +90 212 282 8140 (7 lines).
The General Directorate of Customs (Gümrükler Genel Müdürlügü), Ulus Ankara Phone:
+90 312 310 3880, 310 3818, Fax: +90 312 311 1346, before the end of the period declared.
In Case of Accident
The accident should be reported to the police or gendarme. That report has to be certified by the nearest local authority. The owner should apply to the customs authority with his passport and report.
If the vehicle can be repaired, it is necessary to inform the customs authority first and take the vehicle to a garage. If the vehicle is not repairable and if the owner wishes to leave the country without his vehicle, he has to deliver it to the nearest customs office, and the registration of his vehicle on his passport will be cancelled. (Only after the cancellation can the owner of the vehicle leave the country.)
Following an accident, you can phone:
- Trafik Polisi (Traffic Police), Phone: 154
- Jandarma (Gendarme), Phone: 156
- For more information, contact the Touring and Automobile Association of Turkey.
Formalities for Private Yacht Owners
Yachts require a Transit Log and may remain in Turkish waters for up to two years maintenance or for wintering. There are certain ports licensed by the Ministry of Tourist the storage of yachts for a period of two to five years. For further information and regulations contact the marina concerned.
Upon arriving in Turkish waters, yachts should immediately go for control of the ship to the nearest port of entry which are as follows: Iskenderun, Botas (Adana), Mersin, Tasucu, Anamur, Alanya, Antalya, Kemer, Finike, Kas, Fethiye, Marmaris, Datça, Bodrum, Güllük Didim, Kusadasi, Çesme, Izmir, Dikili, Ayvalik, Akçay, Çanakkale, Bandirma, Tekirdag, Istanbul, Zonguldak, Sinop, Samsun, Ordu, Giresun, Trabzon, Rize, Hopa.
Port Formalities
All the required information concerning the yacht, yachtsmen, members, intended route, passports, customs declarations, health clearance, and any obligatory matters must be entered in the Transit Log.
The Transit Log is to be completed by the captain of a yacht under a foreign flag or amateur sailor acting as captain of the vessel.
The Transit Log is completed upon first entering a Turkish port and, generally, it is necessary to contact the Harbor Authority before leaving. For information on tax-free fuel, contact the Marina Harbor Office.
If you have a certificate from the Tourism Ministry Yacht Harbor, you may take petrol at no charge, provided you possess an official marina license.
Formalities for Private Plane Owners
When coming to Turkey, international air routes should be followed. Private planes may stay for up to three months in Turkey with tourist status, but for longer periods permission should be obtained from;
The General Directorate of Customs (Gümrükler Genel Müdürlügü), Ulus Ankara
+90 312 310 3880, 310 3818, Fax: +90 312 311 1346
The airports of Ankara, Adana, Istanbul, Izmir, Antalya, Trabzon and Dalaman have ties for private planes. It is also possible to hire planes and helicopters in Turkey.
For further information, apply to:
The Civil Aviation Department of the Ministry of Transport (Ulastirma Bakanligi, Havacilik Gen. Müd.). Bosna-Hersek Cad., No: 5 – 06338 – Emek, Ankara.
+90 312 212 6730, Fax: +90 312 2124684, TIx : 44659 Ga-tr.
Underwater Diving
Diving for purposes of sport, with proper equipment and in non-restricted areas, is permitted. Foreign divers should have official documentation of their specifics and training and must be accompanied, when diving, by a licensed Turkish guide.
The limit for diving with diving gear is 30 meters. For educational purposes, this limit is extended to 42 meters. Dives exceeding 30 meters must be carried out with proper diving and medical equipment. In order to protect Turkish archaeological and cultural values. It is strictly forbidden to transport Turkish antiquities or natural specimens.
Postal System
Turkish post-offices are easily recognized by their black PTT letters on a yellow background. Major post offices are open from 8:00 a.m. till 12:00 p.m., Monday/Saturday, and 9:00 a.m. till 7:00 p.m., Sunday. Small post-offices have the same hours as the government offices.
Postal charges vary for different services depending on destination. Post restante letters should be addressed "postrestant" to the central post-office Merkez Postanesi, in the town of your choice. You have to show your identification card to collect your letters.
All PTT branches have the facilities to exchange money at the current international exchange rates, as well as international postal orders and travelers' cheques. There is also an express postal service (APS) operating to 90 countries for letters , documents and small packages. A wide variety of special stamps are available in all PTT centers for philatelists.
To phone from PTT telephone booths, which are extensively found in all areas; telephone cards , and tokens (";jeton") in three sizes are used. Local, inter-city and international calls can be made from all PTT offices. Besides these main offices there are also mobile PTT services in the touristic areas. For the area codes of major cities and touristic areas in Turkey, please see the "Area Codes" list. Foreign countries area codes are indicated in the International Telephone Codes list.
Some important service numbers are;
- 155 Police
- 112 Emergency
- 110 Fire
- 118 Unknown Numbers
- 161 PTT Information.
Working Hours
Government Offices
Monday-Friday (8:30-12:30), (13:30-17:30)
Saturday-Sunday (closed)
Monday-Friday (8:30-12-00), (13:30-17:00)
Saturday-Sunday (closed)
Monday-Saturday (9:30-13:00), (14:00-19:00)
Sunday (closed)
Istanbul Covered Market:
Monday-Saturday (8:00-19:00)
Sunday (closed)
During summer months, the government offices and many other establishments in the Aegean and Mediterranean Regions are closed in the afternoon. These fixed summer hours are determined by the governing bodies of the provinces.
Other Practical Information
Local time: GMT+3 hours (April-September) GMT+2 hours (October-March)
Time Differences:
Argentina -5, France -1, Netherlands -1, Australia +8, Germany -1, Saudi Arabia+1, Austria -1, Greece 0, Sweden -1, Egypt 0, Italy -1, Switzerland -1, England -2, Japan +7, Spain -1, USA -7 (EST) -10 (WEST)
*These time differences are for the period October-March; however, they may show variances according to each country's own time-saving adjustments.
Petrol: Super (premium) – Unleaded (at some places). Normal (regular) – Diesel.
Electricity: 220 volts AC/50 Hz. all over Turkey. (Industrial:380 V) Plug: European round/ 2-prong plug.
Water: Although tap water is safe to drink since it is chlorinated, it is recommended to get advice from the conceded authorities of the places resided.
Weights and Measures:
1 inch = 2.54 centimeters , 1 centimeter = 0.3937 inches
1 yard = 0,9144 meters, 1 meter = 1.0936 yards
1 mile = 1,6093 kilometers, 1 kilometer = 0.6214 miles
1 pound = 0,4536 kilograms, 1 kilogram = 2.2046 pounds
Area: 1 acres = 0,4047 Hectares, 1 hectare = 2.471 acres
1 UK gallon = 4.546 liters, 1 liter = 0.2199 UK gallons
1 US gallon = 3.7831 liters, 1 liter = 0.2643 US gallons
Newspapers and Magazines:
Foreign newspapers and magazines are available in big cities and tourist areas. Also there is a Turkish daily newspaper, Daily News, published in English.
At various establishments like hotels, restaurants, Turkish baths, barbers and hairdressers, tipping at a rate of 5%-15% of the total is common. Taxi and "dolmus" drivers on the other hand, do not expect tips or even rounded fares.
Visiting a mosque:
Five times a day, the "müezzin" calls the faithful to prayer in the mosque. Before entering a mosque, Muslims wash themselves and remove their shoes. Foreign visitors should also remove their shoes and show the respect they would any other house of worship and avoid visiting the mosque during prayer time. Women should cover their heads and arms, and not wear miniskirts. Men should not wear shorts. (In certain famous mosques, overalls are provided for those not suitably dressed.)
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Budongo Conservation Field Station (BCFS)
Implemented in 2008, this long-term collaboration between Roman Wittig, Catherine Crockford and Klaus Zuberbühler, investigates the evolution of sociality and social cognition in wild chimpanzees of the Sonso community using observations, field experiments and non-invasive hormonal measures.
The chimpanzees (P. t. schweinfurthii) of the Sonso community have been observed continuously since 1990, when Vernon Reynolds founded the Budongo Forest Project (BFP) to study and protect a population of about 800 chimpanzees in the Budongo Forest Reserve innorth-western Uganda. In 2005 BFP was transformed into an Ugandan NGO: Budongo Conservation Field Station (BCFS). Since then the chimpanzee research is headed by Klaus Zuberbühler from the Universities of St Andrews (UK) and Neuchatel (CH).
For details see: www.budongo.org


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This video says about itself:
12 Oct 2013
Raw footage of brave women defying Saudi Arabia's ban on female drivers.
From Associated Press today:
60 Saudi Women Protest Driving Ban Without Incident In Latest Push For Easing Restrictions In Kingdom
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — More than 60 women across Saudi Arabia claimed they drove cars Saturday in defiance of a ban keeping them from getting behind the wheel, facing little protest by police in their push for easing restrictions on women in the kingdom.
The campaign's message is that driving should be a woman's choice. The struggle is rooted in the kingdom's hard-line interpretation of Islam known as Wahabbism, with critics warning that women driving could unravel the very fabric of Saudi society.
Though no laws ban women from driving in Saudi Arabia, authorities do not issue them licenses. Women who drove on Saturday had driver's licenses from abroad, activists said.
Activist Aziza Youssef, a professor at King Saud University, and another activist said protest organizers received 13 videos and about 50 phone messages from women showing or claiming they had driven. She said they have no way to verify the messages.
May Al Sawyan, a 32-year-old mother of two and an economic researcher, told The Associated Press that she drove from her home in Riyadh to the grocery store and back. Activists uploaded a four-minute video of her driving to the campaign's YouTube account.
Al Sawyan said she was prepared to be jailed if caught by authorities. She said she was far enough from a police car that she was not spotted.
"I just took a small loop," she said. "I didn't drive for a long way, but it was fine."
Al Sawyan's husband and family waited at home and called her nervously when she arrived at the store to check on her, she said. She drove with a local female television reporter in the car. They were both without male relatives in the vehicle, which in itself defies the country's strict norms requiring women to have a male relative in public.
"I am very happy and proud that there was no reaction against me," Al Sawyan said.
It is not clear if police turned a blind eye to women driving or simply did not see the scattered, quick spins around towns. An AP journalist in Riyadh said there were no roadblocks or checkpoints set up to watch for female drivers. He saw only a few law enforcement vehicles on the road.
A security official said authorities did not arrest or fine any female drivers on Saturday. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.
Ahead of the protest, authorities offered mixed messages, perhaps cautious not to push too hard against the kingdom's religious establishment. Hard-line clerics say women driving will lead to "licentiousness." A prominent cleric also caused a stir when he said that medical studies show driving a car harms a woman's ovaries.
The ministry that oversees the police warned that violators who "disturb public peace" would be dealt with forcefully. The statement catered to conservatives who saw this as directed at women drivers, but was also interpreted by reformers to be directed at anyone who harasses women drivers.
Saturday's campaign is in stark contrast to the kingdom's first major driving protest in 1990, which saw 50 women arrested. They ultimately had their passports confiscated and lost their jobs.
In June 2011, about 40 women got behind the wheel in several cities in a protest sparked when a woman was arrested after posting a video of herself driving. Later another woman driver was arrested and sentenced to 10 lashes, but the king overturned the sentence.
But the stringent male guardian system has been left untouched. It requires women to obtain permission from a male relative to travel, get married, enroll in higher education or undergo surgery in some cases.
Women who complain about not having male relatives to drive them places or money to spend on a driver are told by many Saudi clerics to call for better public transportation systems, not a driver's license.
In the days leading up to the campaign, some hard-liners called for women drivers to be harassed. …
Youssef said she and four other prominent women activists received phone calls from a top official with close links to Interior Minister Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, urging them not to drive on Saturday. She also said that "two suspicious cars" were following her all day.
Despite the obstacles, Youssef said only one woman reported being pulled over by police Saturday. The woman was asked to sign a statement promising not to drive again and her husband took over the steering wheel, she said.
"We will continue driving and posting videos," Youssef said. "The whole thing is raising awareness and making people get used to us driving as normal."
Batrawy reported from Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Related articles
- Saudi women break driving ban, defying warning (globalnews.ca)


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If a police officer stops you in the course of investigating some matter, can she peruse the contents of your mobile device as she might demand your identification or the contents of the glove compartment of your vehicle? Does a routine traffic stop allow access to your phone's photos, videos, text messages, and contacts?
The gear to grab this data is widely available. Cell phone extraction hardware made by CelleBrite, for instance, can grab a phone's contacts database, its text message log, call history, pictures, videos, ringtones, or even a "complete file system memory dump." The Michigan State Police is a CelleBrite customer, and its routine use is raising questions about the propriety of law enforcement accessing data stored on cell phones.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan worries about how the state police have been using their gadgets, saying that CelleBrite gear can "quickly download data from cell phones without the owner of the cell phone knowing it." They want to know how, when, and where the cops are doing these searches.
After requesting the information using 70 Freedom of Information Act filings, the ACLU was told that documents in question were voluminous. They would include the department's records, logs, and reports of its actual use of these devices. According to the ACLU's latest letter to the MSP, the police estimated that a Freedom of Information Act data retrieval would cost over half a million dollars.
"In fact, we were told that no part of that set of documents would be provided unless we agreed to pay a $272,340 deposit," the ACLU said in a public complaint letter.
"Law enforcement officers are known, on occasion, to encourage citizens to cooperate if they have nothing to hide," the letter concludes. "No less should be expected of law enforcement, and the Michigan State Police should be willing to assuage concerns that these powerful extraction devices are being used illegally by honoring our requests for cooperation and disclosure."
Let's CelleBrite
The CelleBrite company makes many of these phone forensics devices. CelleBrite's profile boasts that the company "introduced a mobile data extraction solution for mobile forensic investigations" in 2007; since then, its products have been used by the military, police, and intelligence agencies around the globe.
The standard CelleBrite Universal Forensic Extraction Device [UFED] is straightforward. It knows how to extract data like a phonebook, camera pictures, videos, audio, SMS text messages and everything else in fairly short order, and it has a cable pack that can interface with most cell phones.
Once a police officer connects the gadget to a suspects' handset, the handheld displays five options:
- Extract Phone Data: the option for taking the information directly from the mobile
- Extract SIM/USIM Data: for physical extraction directly from a SIM card
- Clone SIM ID: allows the user to copy a SIM card, enabling the officer to analyze the phone without it being able to take incoming calls
- Memory dump beta (for password disabling)
- Services: software upgrades and administrative tasks
Option one is easy. The officer connects to the phone, clicks number one, and is directed to a menu of hundreds of mobile vendors. She then picks the vendor and model through a series of drop down displays. Next the operator must tell the device to extract from the phone (as opposed to a SIM card), and whether access a USB or SD data drive.
Then it's time to pick the content types and extract each form of data.
Of particular utility is the UFED Physical Analyzer component of the device. This software allows the police to use specialized search fields to ferret out string patterns in a suspect's cell phone content. The technique is useful in locating certain kinds of file types. For example, JPEG images start with HEX values FF D8 FF. And regular expression (regex) fields can identify specific SMS numbers or dates.
Bluetooth, data analysis, and passwords
A physical connection to the phone isn't needed in some cases; much of this work can also be done via Bluetooth:
The UFED searches for visible Bluetooth devices within its proximity, and provides a list of all devices that it finds. Select the appropriate device from this list. Use the ?? keys to move between options. Press ? to continue. The UFED then instructs you to enter "0000" in the phone to complete the pairing between the devices. Once doing this, all data transfer between the UFED and the phone will be performed using Bluetooth.
Field extraction, CelleBrite notes in one brochure, "ensures that a suspect's phone can be examined before the individual has a chance to destroy or erase data."


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